Dear my Helibrethren,

I dain exhort unto you that again the wind gourds have indeed blessed my Axe's flight a second time!

13 minutes solid and timed hover time on a TP 1320 pack!! When the pack was done, the bird became just a bit naughty then just settled down. Easy to manage.

Then, an experiment - just over the training gear I strapped on a 2200mAH pack from a F27C Stryker! [>:]

After 13 minutes of flight time, my DX6 Radio beeped at me its Low Battery Warning!!! AAhhhh!! I had to land, knowing I still had a lot punch left in that brick of a LiPo.

I don't recommend this. The pack has tons of juice but it is too heavy. I did ok though! [:-]

I had a couple rough but level landings. One was a bit scary, but all it did was rotate the tail a bit. I just rotated it back into correct position.

The main cause?!?! Getting pushed off the hover by WIND!! I would take off and go right into a stable hover, but after a while, it got turbulent! My rotorwash was setting up nasty currents in the big clubhouse room! It got really bad at times!! Then the AC would blow around a bit too and just add to the chaos.

After landings, most of which were perfect, a short wait while the air settled in the room again allowed for stable hovers to continue. It was a bit risky at times, but very good practice too.

Again barmaid! A shot of the good port to celebrate!